Hybrid/Remote High Availability Contract Job Trends

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 185 201
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +45
Contract jobs citing High Availability 145 146 177
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.24% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.39% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 103 119
10th Percentile £400 £290 £304
25th Percentile £421 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £674 £600
90th Percentile £713 £775 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £57.40
25th Percentile £60.00 - £61.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.75
75th Percentile £69.99 - £91.13
90th Percentile - - £92.70
UK median hourly rate £69.63 £23.80 £75.75
% change year-on-year +192.55% -68.58% +194.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

High Availability job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

High Availability daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.14%) CICS
1 6 (4.14%) nginx
2 4 (2.76%) SAS
3 3 (2.07%) Confluence
3 3 (2.07%) IIS
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.38%) CMS
4 2 (1.38%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.38%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.69%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.38%) BASE24
2 2 (1.38%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 57 (39.31%) AWS
2 39 (26.90%) Azure
3 18 (12.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (11.72%) GitHub
5 16 (11.03%) Amazon S3
5 16 (11.03%) Serverless
6 15 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (9.66%) GCP
8 13 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.52%) Amazon ELB
10 8 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.14%) Datadog
12 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (21.38%) Firewall
2 24 (16.55%) VPN
3 18 (12.41%) DNS
4 12 (8.28%) Network Security
4 12 (8.28%) TCP/IP
5 11 (7.59%) SSL
6 10 (6.90%) WAN
7 8 (5.52%) LAN
8 7 (4.83%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.45%) DHCP
10 4 (2.76%) BGP
10 4 (2.76%) MPLS
10 4 (2.76%) OSPF
11 3 (2.07%) DKIM
11 3 (2.07%) DMARC
11 3 (2.07%) Internet
11 3 (2.07%) Junos
11 3 (2.07%) Multicast
11 3 (2.07%) SMTP
12 2 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
1 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.21%) MySQL
3 9 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.45%) DB2
6 5 (3.45%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.07%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (2.07%) OLTP
9 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.38%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (14.48%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.03%) Git
3 15 (10.34%) JIRA
4 13 (8.97%) GitLab
5 4 (2.76%) GCC
6 3 (2.07%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.38%) GDB
7 2 (1.38%) git-flow
8 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.69%) Gradle
8 1 (0.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) Subversion
8 1 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.93%) Finance
3 24 (16.55%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.59%) Banking
6 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.76%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.07%) Electronics
9 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.07%) Front Office
9 3 (2.07%) Legal
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Automotive
10 2 (1.38%) French Language
10 2 (1.38%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (15.86%) Senior
2 21 (14.48%) Developer
3 14 (9.66%) Architect
4 12 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.52%) Lead
7 7 (4.83%) Administrator
7 7 (4.83%) DBA
8 6 (4.14%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) Analyst
9 5 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Mainframe Programmer
9 5 (3.45%) Programmer
9 5 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) REST
2 12 (8.28%) RESTful
3 9 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.52%) HTML
4 8 (5.52%) JSON
4 8 (5.52%) XML
5 7 (4.83%) OAuth
6 6 (4.14%) Middleware
7 5 (3.45%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (3.45%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.45%) SOAP
8 4 (2.76%) Kafka
8 4 (2.76%) LDAP
8 4 (2.76%) Spring
8 4 (2.76%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.07%) .NET
9 3 (2.07%) ISPF
9 3 (2.07%) Node.js
9 3 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.72%) Replication
3 13 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.21%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.14%) Mainframe
6 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.45%) Clustering
7 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.76%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.07%) NHS
9 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.07%) SCADA
9 3 (2.07%) Smart Meter
10 2 (1.38%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.62%) Linux
2 22 (15.17%) Windows
3 13 (8.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.45%) CentOS
5 5 (3.45%) zOS
6 4 (2.76%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.07%) Unix
7 3 (2.07%) VMS
8 2 (1.38%) OS/2
8 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.69%) Solaris
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.62%) DevOps
2 55 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 39 (26.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (19.31%) Containerisation
5 28 (19.31%) Migration
6 27 (18.62%) Root Cause Analysis
7 26 (17.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (17.93%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (17.24%) Agile
9 22 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (15.17%) Microservices
10 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (11.03%) Incident Response
11 16 (11.03%) ITIL
12 15 (10.34%) Computer Science
12 15 (10.34%) Observability
13 13 (8.97%) Data Protection
14 12 (8.28%) Configuration Management
14 12 (8.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.48%) Python
2 28 (19.31%) SQL
3 24 (16.55%) Bash
4 20 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 18 (12.41%) Java
6 11 (7.59%) Go
7 7 (4.83%) COBOL
8 5 (3.45%) JCL
9 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.07%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.07%) C++
10 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.07%) PL/1
10 3 (2.07%) REXX
11 2 (1.38%) C
11 2 (1.38%) C#
11 2 (1.38%) CLIST
11 2 (1.38%) Perl
11 2 (1.38%) PromQL
12 1 (0.69%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.03%) Degree
4 15 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.45%) CCNP
7 4 (2.76%) CCIE
7 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.07%) JNCIA
8 3 (2.07%) JNCIP
8 3 (2.07%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.38%) CCNA
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.38%) OCP
9 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) GDPR
2 4 (2.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.07%) SLA
4 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.38%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 2 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (24.14%) Docker
2 11 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.76%) RACF
5 3 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.07%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 3 (2.07%) Postfix
5 3 (2.07%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.07%) vSphere
6 2 (1.38%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.69%) Firmware
7 1 (0.69%) GPFS
7 1 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 41 (28.28%) Terraform
2 28 (19.31%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.93%) Ansible
4 13 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.59%) Grafana
6 6 (4.14%) Kibana
7 4 (2.76%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.07%) logstash
8 3 (2.07%) OMEGAMON
8 3 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.38%) Puppet
9 2 (1.38%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (1.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.38%) yum
10 1 (0.69%) Nagios
10 1 (0.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.03%) VMware
3 14 (9.66%) Cisco
3 14 (9.66%) Palo Alto
4 10 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 10 (6.90%) F5
5 9 (6.21%) Oracle
6 8 (5.52%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.83%) Splunk
8 6 (4.14%) IBM
9 5 (3.45%) Juniper
9 5 (3.45%) Pega
9 5 (3.45%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.76%) Google
10 4 (2.76%) HP
10 4 (2.76%) NetApp
10 4 (2.76%) Solace
11 3 (2.07%) SAP
11 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.07%) Veritas